When quoting in the forum the quoted text appears in a nice looking grey box on white background. But when quoting in the comments section, the quoted text appears in a white box on white background. That doesn't look quite right.

Can you change the colour of the quote-boxes in the comments section, please?

^ Sorry, Stuffgamer1, it's obvious that you have understood it right. Looks like you and me almost posted at the same time so I didn't noticed it. (It took me a while to make the picture and upload it to Geocities.)

And I guess that the request is not important enough to be able to get a response from the admins.

@Omega: That also explains why you said you got "a" comment when there were actually two. Oh, well...no harm done!

@Starkiller: If we REALLY weren't meant to do it, wouldn't it not be possible at all? Like, the coding shown in post #4 would display as typed instead of becoming what's shown in the picture. At least, that's what I would ASSUME would be the case...

I think there is no quote-button in the comments-section because the admins/mods want to avoid these (annoying) fullquotes where the quote takes up much more space than the answer, which kinda halts the reading flow.

But I still think that quotes make sense if only the part necessary for the answer is quoted.

And, most important, I still think that the quote boxes in the comments-section shouldn't be white.

@Omega: The quotes are probably white because that's the default colour for these sorts of things (usually.)@Stuffgamer: We probably shouldn't be able to quote at all. I don't have a good explanation for you, but I stand by my theory.

This is something we never really considered as the comments section wasn't intended for people quoting each other. I don't think it's something we'll be changing in future although I could be wrong. For now, pop your quotes in bold by surrounding them in asterisks.

Okay, it's not a big problem and I can live without proper looking quotes in the comments. I just asked because it's clearly stated (right next to the input textbox) that comments do support basic bbcode formatting. That is not even mentioned in the forums.

I do not want to belabor but I think it's still a bit unclear what I mean.

Everything that is supported in the forums is also supported in the comments. Including [quote], [img], [youtube] etc. The only problem (if you would call it a "problem" at all) is that quote-boxes are poorly visible because of their white color. Changing the color to something different like grey or light blue would solve this (minor) problem.

... perhaps it's a design flaw or a bug that those extra bbcode elements are also (halfway?) supported in the comments section, then. Consider it a bonus? :3

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